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by djoldman 10mo ago
Alternate link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/suddenly-everyo...
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Are they not a maximum of 15% now after the administration's actions?
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It's going to be interesting how this kind of thing plays out. There are some similarities between TFA and Conrad Roy's case[0]. Roy's partner was convicted of manslaughter following Roy's suicide and text messages were
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"Grants and contracts revenue represents the largest component of University revenue ($1.5 billion and 38%)."[0] Indeed. Many large US universities are more accurately labeled as research centers with schools attached. Because tho
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Hrm, interesting: I couldn't tell the difference.
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From the linked https://federalcourt.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Eighth... > Typographic decisions should be made for a purpose. The Times of London chose the typeface Times New Roman to serve an
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> What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? ... for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use his freedom from pressing economic
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> I was trying to travel 35 kilometers. I was now 63 kilometers from my grandmother’s house. Further away than when I started. Oh boy. There's something deeply human about the frustrations of state institutions and bureaucracy. From
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Guns can and are used to murder people directly in the physical world. The overwhelming (perhaps complete) use of generative AI is not to murder people. It's to generate text/photo/video/audio.
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I guess if someone's boss forces them to use a tool they don't want to use, then the boss is to blame? If the boss forced them to use emacs/vim/pandas and the employee didn't want to use it, I don't think it ma
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New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches to tap-and-go fares(apnews.com)
7 points by djoldman 10mo ago|2 comments
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Companies and people by and large are not forced to use AI. AI isn't doing things, people and corporations are doing things with AI. I find it curious how often folks want to find fault with tools and not the systems of laws, regulat
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Is this the case if all the text is in Arabic? Or if all the text was in Arabic, could layout be done after shaping?
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> Just so you have an idea for how a typical text-rendering pipeline works, here’s a quick sketch: 1. Styling (parse markup, query system for fonts) 2. Layout (break text into lines) 3. Shaping (compute the glyphs in a line and their pos
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> It's the news, it's supposed to report on the uncommon.... It was commonly understood that news represents the unusual, not the usual. News organizations could report on people dying of extremely rare diseases and these are r
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HD doesn't need anything more than asking people to leave their property. These folks generally are on a public sidewalk.
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Is there a manifesto out there saying that one should build with html and only if needed add css then svg then js? It seems this site doesn't work so well without JS.
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This is especially timely as I recently listened to the fall of civilizations podcast on the Incas. A key answer to an ongoing question I didn't know I had is that only the faces of the stones in the walls are joined precisely. The b
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by djoldman 10mo ago
"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is trivially disproved. Humans arrive at conclusions about other humans based on information. Sometimes these conclusions are incorrect because humans aren't perfect at reasoning and this ha
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2025 Word of the Year: Slop(merriam-webster.com)
65 points by djoldman 10mo ago|11 comments
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In the USA, you can test out of it: the GED.
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I guess they would already have had that authority? I think it would be the ongoing job of the dean's or at least someone to be setting graduation requirements? Why would the trustees have to explicitly delegate it?
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The announcement is here: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/purdue-unveils-compr... Where the actual news is: > To this end, the trustees have delegated authority to the provost, working with deans o
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I really hope so! But also, it's unlikely I'll live long enough where keeping an older vehicle won't be an option.
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Ha, yea it's been awhile since I've done that. Although if I was annoyed enough I might take one apart.
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I'm curious how big the bank was and what country this is in? It's my understanding that banks really don't want your money once they've closed an account, they want you to take it back. Bigger banks, at least in the US,
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For the tech-savvy, I'm not too worried about smart TVs. I just do this: > If you want premium image quality or sound, you’re better off using a smart TV offline. In the future, if they add e-sims, we'll just remove them or de-
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Amazon Vine(amazon.com)
3 points by djoldman 10mo ago|2 comments
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Webcams! https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railwa...
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Mark V Shaney(en.wikipedia.org)
55 points by djoldman 10mo ago|4 comments

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